Mar 17 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
Mar 08 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond
Mar 19 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.33)
Mar 15 US House of Representatives begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
Mar 28 49th Academy Awards "Rocky", Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win
Mar 24 Former Australian cabinet minister Don Chipp resigns from the Liberal Party; later he establishes the Australian Democrats
Mar 27 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747's crash, Tenerife
Mar 09 Hanafi Moslems invade 3 buildings in Washington DC, siege ended March 11th
Mar 12 Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
Mar 25 In another part of Turkey a 5.2 earthquake killed 30, injured some, and caused considerable damage in the Lice-Palu area.
Mar 04 A 7.2 earthquake occurred in Romania, it was centered about 170 kilometers northeast of Bucharest. It killed 1,500, injured about 10,500, and caused extensive damage in Bucharest and other parts of Romania
Mar 15 "Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
Mar 04 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
Mar 01 Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
Mar 20 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
Mar 01 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
Mar 19 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000 meter (1 15.33)
Mar 13 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
Mar 16 US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
Mar 07 Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
Mar 03 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Irina Moiseeva & Andrei Minenkov (USSR)
Mar 21 In Iran a 7.0 earthquake was was centered in the Bandar Abbas area, near the Persian Gulf. The earthquake killed 167, injured 556, and caused considerable damage over an area of 550 square kilometers north of Bandar Abbas
Mar 28 Morarji Desai forms government in India
Mar 22 Dutch Den Uyl government falls
Mar 11 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway
